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A global intelligence and data firm, IHS Markit, said the Islamic State lost more than 60 percent of its territory and 80 percent of its revenue since the terrorist group declared its "caliphate" in Iraq and Syria back in 2014.

The question on everyone's mind is: will the United States and its European and regional Sunni allies intervene to stop President Vladimir Putin from reversing the gains made by mainstream Syrian rebels after more than four years of war? Few are holding their breath. Many say, often with vehemence, that the current drama is the consequence of ongoing Western inaction and U.S. retreat at critical moments in an ever more uncontrollable conflict, whose regional dimensions are fast becoming global. Nobody in the Middle East is counting on U.S. President Barack Obama. The gloomy prediction of most is that a war...

Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad must leave office or face being turfed out by force, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al-Jubeir said Tuesday, warning of stepped up support for Syrian rebel groups. Jubeir rejected Russian calls for an international coalition to help Assad fight the Islamic State group, and said the Syrian leader's best option would be to step down. "There is no future for Assad in Syria, with all due respect to the Russians or anyone else," Jubeir told reporters in New York after meetings with Saudi Arabia's allies. "There are two options for a settlement in Syria. One option is...

Donald Trump was criticized Thursday evening for not forcefully denouncing a man at a New Hampshire town hall rally who said muslims are a “problem” and accused President Barack Obama of being one.Trump opened the floor up to questions after delivering a few short remarks in Rochester.“We have a problem in this country and it’s called muslims. We know our current president is one. You know he’s not even an American, birth certificate man!” the man said, referencing Trump’s former efforts to get Obama to release his birth certificate.This is the first question?” Trump jokingly asked the crowd.“But anyway, we...

Columnist and author of “Never Trust a Liberal Over 3-Especially a Republican” Ann Coulter said that Democrats were engaging in a double standard by criticizing Rudy Giuliani while calling Republicans racist on Saturday’s “Fox & Friends” on the Fox News Channel. “Everyone keeps saying ‘oh how you can see into his heart? you can’t say this.’ Gosh, they sure call us racist a lot. Can they see into our hearts? And that’s based on, what? Because Republicans want to cut taxes? Whereas the fact that Democrats, generally do not love their country. I would base [that] on things like Obama...

President Barack Obama stirred outraged with his speech at the National Prayer Breakfast Thursday, comparing the atrocities committed by ISIS to those of Christians "in the name of Christ." "Unless we get on our high horse and think that this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ," Obama said. "In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ." "So it is not unique to one group or one religion," Obama said. "There is a tendency in...

The Democratic chairman and a Republican on the Senate Armed Services Committee called on President Barack Obama today to conduct air strikes in Syria and help establish a “safe haven” for opposition groups. Chairman Carl Levin of Michigan and Senator John McCain of Arizona cited reports of chemical weapons used in Syria in urging Obama to take military action. “We write to express our strong belief that it is in our national security interest to take more active steps, together with our friends and allies in the Middle East and Europe, to stop the killing in Syria and force...